. A book of country clouds and sunshine; . hed the hotel. This hotel was a big, verandaed barn ofa building, which in warm weather was the resort of manysummer boarders, but in winter was well-nigh deserted. Sup])er was spread for me in a little corner sitting-room, wherewere the selectmen and town-clerk of the community, waitingto register voters in anticipation of the March said every votei in town was registered but one, and they 35 « « A BOOK OF COUNTRYCLOUDS AND SUNSHINE ditlnt believe hed come. Still, it was the law they shouitl bethere that night, and there they were
. A book of country clouds and sunshine; . hed the hotel. This hotel was a big, verandaed barn ofa building, which in warm weather was the resort of manysummer boarders, but in winter was well-nigh deserted. Sup])er was spread for me in a little corner sitting-room, wherewere the selectmen and town-clerk of the community, waitingto register voters in anticipation of the March said every votei in town was registered but one, and they 35 « « A BOOK OF COUNTRYCLOUDS AND SUNSHINE ditlnt believe hed come. Still, it was the law they shouitl bethere that night, and there they were. Chief among theseofficials was the tall, bony chairman of selectmen, a politicianof some note in the region, and the leading man of the churchand town. He talked in the vernacular, with the usual \ankeetwang, as did all the others. A youngish man named Harriskept the hotel. His assistants were a red-headed and capableyoung woman who j:)resided in the kitchen, and a young manwho had at one time been a reporter on the Xciv York Sun, but r. Sharpening Hi> Axe now had plans to make his fortune by running a maple-sugarcamp in the spring. The big coal-stove kept the room comfortably warm, I thought ; II. A WINTER RIDE 36 but the town-officials, in spite of their staying all through thelong evening, did not take their extra wraps off, not even thechairman of the selectmen, who had on two overcoats. The men did not think much of these upland winters. One said, I told my wife that if I had any amount of sense I wouldntspend the winter on Littletown hill. Its a leetle too tough. They had a Chautauqua club in town with fifteen members,that met every week at the members houses. Some of theattendants lixe far out of the centre, and they could not gettogether much before eight or half-jiast. Two hours are spent inthe regular exercises ; and then, if there is time afterwards, theyhave games, but it is usually too late. Not more than one-fourth of the three hundred inhabitantsgo to ch
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